<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,  And me with thee hath ruined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,  And me with thee hath ruined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our investigation found evidence that juveniles were routinely hit, shoved and slapped by staff, that juveniles were sprayed with pepper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our investigation found evidence that juveniles were routinely hit, shoved and slapped by staff, that juveniles were sprayed with pepper spray while in restraints,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was nervous we weren't going to get anyone through to the states. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was nervous we weren't going to get anyone through to the states.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63719]]></link><description><![CDATA[A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66031]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62334]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day:  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9805]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day:  But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts   Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;    Himself his own dungeon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of the man who first tried German sausage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of the man who first tried German sausage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is the heart's memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is the heart's memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42901]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27686]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47426]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad in the judgment of the mob, sane, perhaps, in yours. [Lat., Demens  Judicio vulgi, sanus fortasse tuo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad in the judgment of the mob, sane, perhaps, in yours. [Lat., Demens  Judicio vulgi, sanus fortasse tuo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest The silver clouds.   - John Keats, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62665]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest The silver clouds.   - John Keats,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock;  Down on the vale of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock;  Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries,   The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes    In wild despair; while yet another stroke     With strong convulsion rends the solid oak:      Ah Heaven!--behold her crashing ribs divide!       She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14317]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit:  But all was false and hollow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11538]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit:  But all was false and hollow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It only takes few seconds for us to hurt someone, but sometimes it takes years to repair the damage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63005]]></link><description><![CDATA[It only takes few seconds for us to hurt someone, but sometimes it takes years to repair the damage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61433]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The governor needs to stay on message, and that is getting people out of New Orleans, provide stability for them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The governor needs to stay on message, and that is getting people out of New Orleans, provide stability for them and rebuild. The governor must look like the leader at all times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62856]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43844]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who sets off to the best advantage his every act and speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51667]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who sets off to the best advantage his every act and speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19943]]></link><description><![CDATA[If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20519]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12394]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41504]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year, Clear Channel Radio announced plans to launch Spanish-language formats in markets where there was a need for more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year, Clear Channel Radio announced plans to launch Spanish-language formats in markets where there was a need for more Hispanic-targeted programming. The success of KLOL/Mega epitomizes the very essence of what we hoped to accomplish,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.  You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55489]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore I do not see how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore I do not see how it is possible in the nature of things for any revival of religion to continue long. For religion must necessarily produce both industry and frugality, and these cannot but produce riches. But as riches increase, so will pride, anger, and love of the world in all its branches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is governed by its imagination. [Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is governed by its imagination. [Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25374]]></link><description><![CDATA[An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be back. (five days after being pummeled in his fight with Mike Tyson.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be back. (five days after being pummeled in his fight with Mike Tyson.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is genius in homespun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is genius in homespun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50601]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44292]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is for seeing, the heart is for hearing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is for seeing, the heart is for hearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're doing it for one or two schools, like Wheeling Central because they are so big. I know what their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30207]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're doing it for one or two schools, like Wheeling Central because they are so big. I know what their intent was, and some of them were reasonable and some were not, but I don't think they thought the operations of it through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30207</guid></item></channel></rss>